First Wesleyan Methodist Church
First Wesleyan Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Roanoke, VA 24017. It is one of 351 churches in Roanoke, and one of 18 Methodist congregations in the city.
Roanoke, VA, 24017Shares a ministry location with Roanoke Melrose Avenue Seventh-day Adventist Church.
First Wesleyan Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 970 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Virginia — 25,985 across the United States on The Church Map.
Methodism gave the church the class meeting, the circuit rider, and the Sunday school, and gave America the conviction that grace is genuinely for everyone — carried into prisons, mines, and mill towns by preachers who owned almost nothing. Charles Wesley's hymns are still sung in nearly every tradition, most of them by people who have no idea whose they are.
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The community around First Wesleyan Methodist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 5 in 10 adults live with obesity. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 51.5%
- Social Isolation: 40.7%
- Food Insecurity: 35.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.9%
- Housing Insecurity: 26.7%
- Diabetes: 22.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 19.9%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.1%
- Poverty Rate: 29.7% (20.4–39.0%)
- Transportation Barriers: 17.9%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 15.2% (9.4–20.9%)
- Unemployment: 11.4% (5.1–19.1%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.2%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Roanoke city is served by 141 churches — about one congregation for every 703 residents.
Churches near First Wesleyan Methodist Church
- Roanoke Melrose Avenue Seventh-day Adventist Church — 0 mi away
- Price Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 0.1 mi away
- Calvary Tabernacle Church — 0.2 mi away
- Central Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Double Anointing — 0.2 mi away
- Pilgrim Holiness Church — 0.2 mi away
- Garden of Prayer Number 6 Pentecostal Holiness Church — 0.2 mi away
- Melrose United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Paradise Cathedral — 0.3 mi away
- Church of God — 0.3 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Price Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 0.1 mi away
- Melrose United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- West End United Methodist Church — 0.9 mi away
- St Paul United Methodist Church — 1 mi away
- Villa Heights Methodist Church — 1 mi away